"We live in a time of terrible storms, of growing violence, from knife crime to war. The chasm between rich and poor is every wider. The world order is breaking down. We have no idea of what Artificial Intelligence will yield. If we are not nervous, we ought to be." zenit.org/2026/01/07/p...

“…the world is not saved by sharpening swords, nor by judging, oppressing or eliminating our brothers and sisters. Rather, it is saved by tirelessly striving to understand, forgive, liberate and welcome everyone, without calculation and without fear.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

あけましておめでとうございます。 画像は明るさの錯視で、左の白馬と右の黒馬は輝度が同じです。

Stabat Mater.

Happy new year ☺️🤲🏼 (@ 東京 皇居 Tokyo Imperial Palace)

ἵνα πάντες ἓν ὦσιν flic.kr/p/2rP7vJL

Et lux in tenebris lucet (Ioannem 1:5) Wishing you all a blessed and peaceful Christmas.

“A Neural Symbolic Model for Space Physics” - very interesting work on deriving physical laws from data using AI! Nature ML paper: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.07994 Code: github.com/Jie0618/Phys...

Just came across a cool website for visualizing ONNX model architectures like this (which can be exported from PyTorch): netron.app

Adversarial poetry www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

New article: Slavoj #Žižek’s #Christian #Atheism: A #Dialogue with Chiara #Lubich by Peter Morovic and Ján Morovic pupilla.org/preprints/20...

"Una vegada [Papa Francesc] va dir: "No existeix un Déu catòlic. Existeix Déu". Es tracta de buscar Déu on es trobi, no on un es pensa que és. Déu pot arribar a una persona de les maneres més inesperades, poètiques i lliures." @antoniospadaro.bsky.social www.elperiodico.cat/ca/oci-i-cul...

The bloody neighbours have gone out and left John Cage’s 4’33 on full blast again.

An algorithm that doesn’t rot your brain? via @jackconte.bsky.social youtu.be/EO14wPQw89c?...

Remembering Nov 17th 1989 in Czechslovakia, the beginning of a fundamental change driven by peaceful but determined people in the streets. The soundtrack was “We promised each other love” by Ivan Hoffman #otd #iwasthere #VelvetRevolution youtu.be/FW2TZvdAOiQ

Curved circular creases of annuli. A construction by Erik and Martin Demaine (all rights reserved). Several annuli intertwined. #MathSky #MathArt #Geometry #Origami More examples: erikdemaine.org/curved/)

Counting fish in Japanese: depending on shape (long narrow or flat), size (big ir small), state (cooked, uncooked, sashimi)… and whether it’s at a fish counter or not 🤷🏻‍♂️🙆🏻‍♂️🙅🏻‍♂️ #lifestooshort #ganbattekudasai

Today in Principles of Color Science 🧪 Teaching about color measurement geometry and the effect of gloss & sheen. 45°:0° vs 8°:de vs 8°:di Ideally a measurement is representative of viewing, in which case excluding gloss is good!

Gran Rosalía! "Com a artista hi ha una relació entre la buidor i la divinitat". "Tinc un desig dins meu que sé que aquest món no el pot satisfer". "Potser aquest és l'espai de Déu". youtu.be/4ubv2VR3gZ8?...

"[A]ll are called to serve. No one should impose his or her own ideas; we must all listen to one another. No one is excluded; we are all called to participate. No one possesses the whole truth; we must all humbly seek it and seek it together." Pope Leo XIV www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Br Dr Guy Consolmagno, SJ, former head of the Vatican observatory youtu.be/LE_NFQzxUrE?...

“A Church that sets no limits to love, that knows no enemies to fight but only men and women to love, is the Church that the world needs today.” Pope Leo XIV, Dilexit Te www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

🧪 Job Alert - RIT will be posting a new Tenure-Track faculty position in Neuroscience. Looking for someone with neurobiology experience doing research with visual and/or computational neuroscience. Any amazing neuroscientists out there? Job posting coming soon... www.rit.edu/study/neuros...

“... for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” (G. Eliot) www.imdb.com/title/tt5827...

RIP Patricia Routledge one of the best ever to do it.

Where do you stand? "I think we consist of more than mere atoms crashing into each other, and that we are, instead, beings of vast potential, placed on this earth for a reason - to magnify, as best we can, that which is beautiful and true." ...

Velcrow Birds of a feather stick together. www.worldofmoose.com/products/vel...

When Purple Perceived Only at Fixation: A Fixation and Distance-Dependent Color Illusion https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11582

Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners https://video-zero-shot.github.io/

"We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates... Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty." -Tanizaki Junichiro "In Praise of Shadows"（陰礼讃）

New article: “Tra realtà e immaginazione. Brevi note e riflessioni a partire dall’evoluzione del concetto di spazio in matematica.” by Ugo Gianazza and Luca Magri pupilla.org/preprints/20...

youtu.be/_BrFKp-U8GI?... #sollewitt via @3blue1brown.com

Archimedes: "Every cylinder whose base is the greatest circle in a sphere and whose height is equal to the diameter of the sphere has a volume equal to 3/2 the volume of the sphere." Cicero found Archimedes' tomb ~137 yrs later with his famous theorem represented. #Mathematics #MathSky #Geometry

“…not only faith and reason, but […] “open thought,” which neither closes nor severs but opens and connects.” www.commonwealmagazine.org/francis-hear... by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social

Mary, Mother of Innocents flic.kr/p/2ro1PcN

Delighted to see pupilla.org launched. A new, multidisciplinary, dialogue-focused preprint archive that @pezike.bsky.social and I have been working on. Do take a look at it and let us know if you would like to contribute/collaborate!

Excited to launch something @janmorovic.bsky.social and I have been working on called pupilla.org, read more about it here: medium.com/@pezike/pupi...

L’altrove è già qui [Alice Rohrwacher] medium.com/@pezike/l-al...

@pezike.bsky.social and I have written a book for children about the lives of 39 saints from around the world. It is now in print and available from New City Publishing here: www.newcity.co.uk/books/the-sa... Free colouring pages for kids are also available from the website ☺️

Fighting AI Hallucinations One Citation at a Time: Introducing the LLM Citation Verifier dwflanagan.com/blog/llm-cit...

This is the optimal sphere packing in two dimensions. www.quantamagazine.org/new-sphere-p...

“A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition” Very interesting paper published in Nature about fine tuning an LLM on 10M human choices from 160 psychology experiments. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09215-4

I was today years old when I learned that there are organisms (e.g., Shewanella oneidensis) that “breathe” metals (e.g., iron) rather that oxygen 🤯 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissimi...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

“It is not enough to exclude war; we must create the conditions in which every people feels they can love another’s homeland as their own, in a mutual and selfless exchange of gifts.” Chiara Lubich United Nations (1977)

Back in 2005, Jobs spent months trying to figure out what to say to Stanford’s graduates. Newly released materials show how he went from hopelessly flailing to delivering a talk for the ages. www.wired.com/story/how-st...